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by lomnakkus 3566 days ago
Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic :/.

There's quite a bit of difference between corporations and people which means that granting corporations "personhood" is quite... crazy, IMO. In particular, almost all corporations are (almost by definition) asocial, don't care about what their peers think of them, etc. etc. They're basically sociopaths. Besides that they are (when big enough) effectively invulnerable to judicial sanctions, etc. etc.

It should be obvious why this is a bad idea.

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But we allow this to happen across society. The Catholic organisation, for example, has it's own morality. And it is completely accepted that you should not join that church if you do not agree with that morality.
> But we allow this to happen across society. The Catholic organisation, for example, has it's own morality.

That's true, but the Catholic church only imposes it's will on Catholics. It may certainly try to influence non-Catholic people towards its views, but... let's just say that it's been met with "limited success".

The problem with (large) corporations is that they have the power to impose their wills almost without regard.